Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 2 December 2070 at 16:53 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2070 after 14 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 December 2070 at 20:32
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2070 at 16:05
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 December 2070 at 09:31
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 January 2071 at 12:15
Spring tide
There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
New lunation 877 / 1830
At 16:53 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 877 of Meeus index or 1830 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2070. It is 22 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠163.2°
The true anomaly is ∠163.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.9°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 19 November 2070 at 07:55 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 December 2070 at 13:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 235 km
The Moon is 405 235 km (251 801 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 585 km (252 640 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 20 November 2070 at 04:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.488°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.543° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 December 2070 at 00:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
